Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cyril Cusack

I was rather a fat little boy.

We had a couple opportunities early. I don't know if we didn't get the right shot, or it was wide or just good saves. But once it happened, the boys didn't let up.

Issa Rae

It was jarring to be berated for 'acting white' when I was placed in a predominantly black middle school in Southern California. I was also chubby, into boys who weren't into me, and tried too hard to fit into this 'blackness' I was supposed to be.

Israel Horovitz

I learned Hebrew from a high school teacher named Mr. Cohen. We would drive down the highway to meet his car, and Jewish boys from these Massachusetts towns would sit in his car and learn the lessons.

Christian Kane

I wrote 'Happy Man' with a couple of boys of mine. I have been writing in Nashville for a long time. Of course I was writing songs back in Oklahoma when I was a kid.

Huston Smith

In my town, I had only one adult American male role model: my father. I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

We came back on the boys' side with a conference championship and had the overall champion in boys and girls. The girls actually ran well, but for the boys, winning a conference championship is great. The kids really wanted it. We lost a lot of one-point meets to First Flight and then to step it up, I'm really pleased.

We picked up lots of points in the distance runs. Several of the boys had personal records and they continue to progress.

Rivers Cuomo

Certainly, the Beach Boys and the early Beatles records were a huge influence on me lyrically.

Jon Scieszka

Fiction is always pushed in schools as the holy grail of reading. Boys tend to like non-fiction more.

But now that he's down in Florida, I think he's doing it for the girls, to try to impress them. Boys will do anything when they're trying to get a girl's attention.

Michael Caine

People say I've 'retained' my Cockney accent. I can do any accent, but I wanted other working-class boys to know that they could become actors.

Pamela Anderson

I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.

We have three sets of identical boys, one set of identical girls and two sets of fraternal twins. We've always had a couple sets, but it never jumped out at us until the other day when we were going through our roster.

We have the issues of poor people and privacy left over because all the big boys have already gotten what they want,

Scott Skiles

Typical dad stuff, ... Spending time with my two boys, going to their little league games. And following the NBA, like always.

Tyler is starting to play like the Tyler of old. The other boys didn't play other sports this summer and he did. He divided his time and didn't play many tournaments.

We need to stop penalizing boys for late homework. This is a superstition and there's no evidence that this does any good. It just keeps them out of college.

We needed to play an 'A' game and not a 'B' game. But the boys responded well. They played hard, put West under pressure - West is good, physical, (with) good team speed - and we just needed to close some of those chances down and get forward ourselves.

Heinrich Boll

I will never forget the moment when I was liberated by the American Army. I will never forget those very young boys coming up the hill, who had to take me a prisoner to liberate me.

I was most proud of the way our boys rose to the challenge to have a chance to win. It was just a very entertaining, close game.

I wasn't sure if we had enough gas in our tanks to finish the fourth quarter. But somehow the boys found a way to hold OLPH to just three fourth quarter points.

Jimmy Smith

My boys told me they'd rather play than practice.

Nolan Ryan

My boys thought he was special, because he would always go out of his way to talk to the kids and play with them and that makes him extremely special to them because a lot of players wouldn't do that.

My boys hung in there, persevered and did good things.

Marcus Hahnemann

My boys don't know any different. Basically, they have grown up in England ... This is home to them.

My boys definitely went out and played hard the entire game. We came out with the momentum and they took it and we took it back. But I couldn't be more proud of the way the boys played.

Amir Johnson

My character, my mentality was shaped by the Boys and Girls club.

Most of the boys are walking around in a daze in there. We thought we had done enough to win but the scoreline makes it look as though we had been battered.

Most little boys like to dress like their daddies.

Richard Dormer

Merely affording somebody with the opportunity to commit a crime in New York is not entrapment. When our investigators go on-line posing as 13 boys or girls, they are immediately hit on. They do not reach out to anybody. They just put their screen name up and they get hit.

Richard Dormer

Merely affording somebody the opportunity to commit a crime in New York is not entrapment. When our investigators go online posing as 13-year-old boys or girls, and in some cases 12 years old, they are immediately hit on. They do not reach out to anybody. They just put their screen name up and they get hit.

Mark Twain

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old. You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.